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A guide for sponsoring organizations: how to provide young volunteers with a healthy and safe working environment  Explains the need to discuss safety issues, and provides guidance to setting up a training program for teen volunteers. Source: Ontario Ministry of Labour Building a better dinosaur: a response of the Society for Manitobans with Disabilities to 'Helping Canadians help Canadians: improving governance and accountability in the voluntary sector'  Addresses key concerns about some of the recommendations in this report that may weaken the voluntary sector and place voluntary organizations at a disadvantage. Source: SMD Alliance Canadian Red Cross  Focuses on promoting humanitarian values, disaster preparedness, disaster response, and health and community care, both nationally and internationally. Offers home health care and abuse prevention services. Web site includes news stories, information on programs, services and courses, and links to relevant sites. Source: Canadian Red Cross Caring Canadians, involved Canadians: highlights from the 2004 Canada survey of giving, volunteering and participating  Examines activities in which Canadians engage: donate time and money to charities and NPOs, help neighbours, friends and family, and connect with one another through their community groups. Presents highlights of the findings of the Canada Survey of Giving,Volunteering and Participating (CSGVP). Link requires PDF reader. Source: Imagine Canada Community action resources for Inuit, Métis and First Nations: finding resources  Describes the key role of the process of finding resources to achieve your goals, improve the health of your community, and to realize social change. Reviews the types of resources needed and the obstacles to getting them, and finding both volunteers and money, services or materials as resources. Link requires PDF reader. Source: Health Canada Creating a more inclusive voluntary sector: a focus on diversity  Offers a self-help tool for organizations in New Brunswick's voluntary sector and multicultural community. Forms resources to help increase the level of participation of people from all of the diverse cultures in NB as active volunteers in the community. Link requires PDF reader. Source: PolicyLink NB Getting involved to make a difference: stories from youth about volunteering  Explains why it's important to create volunteering opportunities for youth and provides examples. Discusses the benefits of volunteer work to the youth involved and to the wider community. Lists key aspects of successful volunteering programs. Created for the CHN by the Youth Affiliate. Source: Canadian Health Network (CHN) From: Partner feature of the month: archives Imagine Canada  Advances knowledge and relationships to foster effective and sustainable charitable and nonprofit organizations. Source: Imagine Canada Leadership gap: perception or reality: volume I  Highlights the dependence of rural communities in Newfoundland and Labrador on voluntary action and leadership for basic community services such as firefighters, ambulance drivers, and municipal councillors. Profiles the stresses and strains on the voluntary, community-based sector. Link requires PDF reader. Source: Community Services Council of Newfoundland and Labrador Leadership gap: perception or reality: volume II  Provides information from phase two of a study of the stresses and strains on the voluntary, community-based sector in rural Newfoundland and Labrador. Includes responses to key informant questions, four community case studies, recommendations for action, and a literature review. Link requires PDF reader. Source: Community Services Council of Newfoundland and Labrador
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